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Random Thursday: One Blog is Worth a Thousand Posts

I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the last three years . . . and also to practice saying, “thousandth,” because let me tell you, that word does not flow easy off the tongue.**

Other bloggers seem to celebrate this occasion by sharing links to their five most popular posts, but a friend suggested that since logic dictates that most of you have seen those already, it might be more embarrassing interesting to list my five least popular posts, in a shameless bid for stats and see if anyone is brave enough to click ’em.

I’m not sharing the rock bottom least popular,*** as WordPress very kindly doesn’t extend their stats list past a certain threshold and crossing that line to do my own math seemed like the exact opposite of “celebratory.”

But here are the last five on the WordPress list, starting from the lowest, because reasons:

It’s an eclectic assortment, which fits the general Thursday attitude around here—and it’s a relief that this is happening today, instead of, say, Wednesday, as I’d probably end up holding a last-minute thousand-word poetry contest to the sounds of loud crickets.

I’ve been thinking of picking up cross-stitching again, because I used to enjoy it and it makes watching TV look semi-productive.

I’m currently fiddling around with graph paper and a couple of books of alphabet patterns, trying to find the right combination for my current favorite inspirational quote,^ but a co-worker sent me the link to Alicia Watkins’ etsy store, which has some of the best geek/nerd in-jokes I have ever seen stitched to a canvas.

I hope this was a suitably Thursdayesque ode to the wanderings of my scattershot mind.

I’d love to say I’d carefully worked it out this way, but it was totally . . . wait for it . . . random.

Thanks for humoring me!

Onward.

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*And lord knows how many footnotes.

**Try it five times fast—or better yet, get your kids to try it with you. It’s hilarious.

***Which would probably be the first five I wrote, because not even my mother knew I had a blog. I’m not sure she knew what a blog was at the time, but I’m glad she knows now, because with her schedule, it’s nearly impossible to get her on the phone unless I call her at 4am—and there’s really no point in two dreadfully undercaffeinated people trying to communicate using only three or four alert brain cells, total. Except I could probably get a pretty funny post out of it . . . supposing I remembered any of it.

Not sure if I should curse you or thank you for sending me off on a Tom Jones/Hugh Laurie tangent. I guess of the thousand ways I could spend a time suck, that’s not a bad way to go. Here’s to a thousand more. (and then some)

Congratulations! I’d be curious about your five most popular posts because I probably haven’t seen them all (I only started following your blog in the last year). By the way, I don’t like football much either. It’s a fairly unpopular opinion in my neck of the woods.

Football is inexplicable to me. Honestly, it’s not the violence, it’s the waiting. I’ll figure out how to read tennis scores and understand cricket before I’ll ever master the patience for “football minutes.”

Thanks! It’s interesting to see what posts end up being the most popular. The posts I include on my “popular posts” page are the ones that received the highest number of page views, comments, and/or the number of external links. So, it doesn’t entirely reflect what WordPress would rank as the most popular.

As for football, it is boring! I also see it from a Title IX and safety perspective. It’s an expensive sport that rarely pays for itself at most schools, it perpetuates a damaging culture (that has resulted in several high profile sexual assault cases), and now evidence suggests that it’s slowly killing its players (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). It’s a wonder it’s as popular as it is.

That’s a lot of awesome posts–and in including those that WordPress says are least popular. Just because it’s not widely circulated doesn’t mean it isn’t awesome. And you run a spectacular ship of random fantastic around here. Congrats!